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Ensuring long-term water security is essential in the pathway towards sustainable development in Argentina. Floods cause 60% of all critical events in the country and are responsible for 95% of economic losses. Severe droughts, in a country where the agricultural sector accounts for 6.4% of GDP as compared to a global average of 3.6%, have a strong impact in the economy. The country is also home to some of the most polluted basins worldwide. Furthermore, climate change will likely shift further water availability, uses and demand. The report is the result of a policy dialogue with more than 200 stakeholders at different levels in Argentina. It assesses water governance in Argentina, identifies several key challenges to effective, efficient and inclusive water policies, and provides a set of policy recommendations to enhance water governance as a means to address relevant societal challenges, both within the scope of water management and beyond. In particular, ways forward for Argentina include strengthening the co-ordination between national and provincial water policies, setting up a multilevel water planning and investment framework, improving basin management practices, and enhancing economic regulation for water services.

Cover -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1 The Forerunners of Global Governance: A Brief History -- In the beginning -- Globalization -- Concluding remarks -- 2 The Theoretical Debate -- Governance -- Governance goes global -- Theory with Chinese characteristics? -- Concluding remarks -- 3 The World the United States Made -- Before hegemony -- Embedding hegemony -- Concluding remarks -- 4 Contested Governance and the China Challenge -- Taking history seriously -- China goes (sort of) global -- China and global governance -- Concluding remarks -- 5 The Rise of the Rest? -- Early risers -- Late developers -- The BRICS -- A new institutional order? -- Concluding remarks -- 6 Regionalism in a Global Era -- Regions: Good in theory? -- The EU: First and foremost? -- The Asian alternative -- Concluding remarks -- 7 Governing the Global Economy -- Conceptualizing the evolving economic order -- Concluding remarks -- 8 Governing the Global Environment -- The inconvenient truth -- The politics of climate change -- Concluding remarks -- 9 Governing Global Security -- Is peace possible? -- Concluding remarks -- 10 The Future of Global Governance -- The perils and necessity of extrapolation -- The cosmopolitan alternative -- Is world government the (only) answer? -- Rethinking global governance -- Bibliography -- Index.

Introduction -- Deconstructing internet governance : a framework for analysis -- Revisiting the origins : the internet and its early governance -- Privatization and globalization of the internet -- The WSIS decade and the public-private partnership thirst -- Enacting internet governance : power and communities over time -- Conclusion : reflections on a global issue domain

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- Note -- 2 Concepts, measures and correlations -- Introduction -- Defining governance -- Measuring governance -- Defining inequality -- Measuring inequality -- Correlations -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 3 Insights from the past -- Introduction -- Social responses to existential uncertainty -- The foundations of the rule of law -- The place of religion -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 4 Insights from social psychology and behavioural economics -- Introduction -- Ingroup bias and unethical behaviour -- Inequality, legitimacy and behaviour -- Power and corruption -- Good or bad governance as alternative social equilibria -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 5 Economic inequality and governance in contemporary societies -- Introduction -- Economic inequality will undermine good governance -- Bad governance will perpetuate economic inequalit -- Important covariates -- What does the data say? -- Economic inequality, democracy and governance -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 6 Culture, economic inequality and governance -- Introduction -- Measures of culture -- The causal links -- The impact of inequality and culture on governance -- Culture, democracy and governance -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 7 Conclusion -- What have we learnt? -- What can be done? -- Note -- Appendix: country codes and samples -- References -- Index.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: decentring European governance -- Introduction -- The critique of positivism and the study of European governance -- Decentred theory and the study of European governance -- Meanings in action -- Resistance -- Summary of contributions -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 2 Calories, tractors and 'technical agriculture': manufacturing agrarian cooperation within the OEEC (1947-1954) -- Agrarian power in postwar Europe: situating the OEEC in a victualizing genealogy -- Internationalizing the food supply within the OEEC's Food and Agricultural Committee -- Dietary surveillance and the 'vital' requirements of postwar reconstruction -- 'Food balance sheets' and inscribing hunger: making Agrarian Europe governable -- 'Technical agriculture' and Europe's modernist path to food plentitude -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 3 The EU's international cultural strategy -- Introduction: the strategic value of culture -- Strategizing culture -- The EU's strategic framework for cultural diplomacy -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 4 Participatory processes as unreliable narrators: political legitimacy and governance narratives in the social OMC peer review process -- Governance as a decentred, disjointed, decoupled … but legitimating concept -- Towards a refined conception of MLG -- Methodology -- The Social OMC peer review process -- Governance as inputs: relational aspects of Social OMC peer reviews -- Governance as throughputs: structural aspects of Social OMC peer reviews -- Governance as outputs: policy outcomes of Social OMC peer reviews -- Discussion -- Conclusions -- Note -- References

This book provides a new approach to thinking about the politics and geographies of climate governance. It argues that in order to understand the nature and potential of the range of new responses to climate change emerging at multiple scales we need to examine how governance is accomplished - how it is undertaken, practised and contested. Through a range of case studies drawn from communities, corporations and local government, the book examines how climate change comes to be governed and made to matter as an issue with which diverse publics should be concerned. It concludes that rather than seeking the solution to climate change once and for all, we need to engage with the ways in which we can channel our intentions to ameliorate the climate problem to more progressive ends.

Smart City Governance examines public domain activities and services in the digital age, evaluating all facets of smart city e-governance that fosters a cohesive understanding for the emerging generation of advanced "digital natives. Exploring the tensions between political science and jurisprudence theories with the principles of societies and their alignment with legal systems, the book examines how governance systems can translate into the digital domain, addressing both the technical and legal dimensions. It offers a model for the technological foundation of governance, discussing existing technological components. The book concludes with a section on outlooks for further research

Governance matters for social welfare. Better governed countries are richer, happier and have fewer social and environmental problems. Good governance implies that public sector agents act impartially. It manifests itself in the form of equality before the law, an independent and professional public administration and the control of corruption. This book considers how economic inequality - both interpersonal and interethnic - can affect the quality of governance. To this end, it brings together insights from three different perspectives. First, a long-run historical one that exploits anthropological data on pre-industrial societies. Second, based on experimental work conducted by social psychologists and behavioural economists. Third, through cross-country empirical analysis drawn from a large sample of contemporary societies. The long-run perspective relates the inequality-governance relationship to societal responses in the face of uncertainty - responses that persist today in the guise of cultural traits that vary across countries. The experimental evidence deepens our understanding of human behaviour in unequal settings and in different governance contexts. Together, the long-run perspective and the experimental evidence help inform the cross-country analysis of the impact of economic inequality on governance. This analysis suggests the importance of both economic inequality and culture for the quality of governance and yields several policy implications.

"Conforming neither to the hierarchical and bureaucratic organization of the European nation-state nor the anarchical structure of international organizations, The European Union (EU) and its predecessors provide an exemplary site for developing a decentred approach to the study of governance. The book offers an analysis of the formation and transformation of the EU as an example of governance above the nation-state and is framed by the recognition that the construction of the EU has resulted in variegated and decentred forms of governance. The chapters look at distinct aspects of EU governance to bring to light the influence of elite narratives, scientific rationalities, local traditions and meaningful practices in the making and remaking of European governance. As such each chapter offers a unique contribution to the study of the EU. In doing so, the book challenges dominant narratives of European integration and policymaking that appeal to reified rationalities and social structures and uncovers the contingency and conflict endemic to European governance. This text will be of key interest to scholars and students of European Union politics, European politics/studies, governance and more broadly to public management, international organisations, anthropology, and sociology"--

What is at stake for how the Internet continues to evolve is the preservation of its integrity as a single network. In practice, its governance is neither centralized nor unitary; it is piecemeal and fragmented, with authoritative decision-making coming from different sources simultaneously: governments, businesses, international organizations, technical and academic experts, and civil society. Historically, the conditions for their interaction were rarely defined beyond basic technical coordination, due at first to the academic freedom granted to the researchers developing the network and, later on, to the sheer impossibility of controlling mushrooming Internet initiatives. Today, the search for global norms and rules for the Internet continues, be it for cybersecurity or artificial intelligence, amid processes fostering the supremacy of national approaches or the vitality of a pluralist environment with various stakeholders represented. This book provides an incisive analysis of the emergence and evolution of global Internet governance, unpacking the complexity of more than 300 governance arrangements, influential debates, and political negotiations over four decades. Highly accessible, this book breaks new ground through a wide empirical exploration and a new conceptual approach to governance enactment in global issue domains. A tripartite framework is employed for revealing power dynamics, relying on: (a) an extensive database of mechanisms of governance for the Internet at the global and regional level; (b) an in-depth analysis of the evolution of actors and priorities over time; and (c) a key set of dominant practices observed in the Internet governance communities. It explains continuity and change in Internet-related negotiations, opening up new directions for thinking and acting in this field.

Global institutions are afflicted by severe democratic deficits, while many of the major problems facing the world remain intractable. Against this backdrop, we explore the prospects for a deliberative approach that puts effective, inclusive, and transformative communication at the heart of global governance. This approach can advance both democratic legitimacy and effective problem solving. Existing institutions such as multilateral negotiations, international organizations, regimes, governance networks, and scientific assessments can be rendered more deliberative and democratic. Such reforms can pave the way for more thoroughgoing transformations in the global order that could involve citizens' assemblies, nested forums stretching from the local to the global, transnational citizens' juries and other mini-publics, crowdsourcing, and a global dissent channel. We pay special attention to climate change, peacebuilding, and global poverty.

This review of Corporate Governance in Lithuania was prepared in the context of Lithuania's accession process to the OECD. It assesses Lithuania's corporate governance arrangements – the laws, regulations and institutions that shape company oversight – for listed companies and state-owned enterprises (SOEs) against the standards of the G20/OECD Principles of Corporate Governance and the OECD Guidelines on Corporate Governance of State-Owned Enterprises. The report reaches a positive overall assessment of Lithuania's willingness and ability to implement these corporate governance standards and makes a number of recommendations to address remaining weaknesses. With respect to listed companies, the report notably recommends that Lithuania give priority to monitoring implementation of recent legislative reforms to strengthen corporate boards of directors and, in the medium term, consider further strengthening and clarifying their legal responsibilities. With respect to SOEs, this report recommends that Lithuania give priority to further strengthening the effectiveness of the state's ownership coordination function, ensuring that the state's requirements on board composition and disclosure practices are fully implemented by the SOEs for which they are mandatory and moving forward with plans to convert commercially-oriented statutory SOEs to limited liability companies.

"This textbook, by drawing on the basic theoretical and practical aspects of localizing governance, will illuminate how local governance unfolds in India. To help comprehend relevant issues contextually, the book focuses on the historical, socio-economic and political milieus and draws extensively on examples and cases from India. By understanding local governance in the wider political scenario, it endeavours to reconceptualise local governance in India as integral to the country's macro politics as well. It also offers a broad analysis of specific programmes (such as MNREGA for rural India and AMRUT for urban India), and thus provides useful conceptual inputs to grasp governance in a policy perspective. Containing varied examples, case studies and literature review, this textbook would be an ideal companion for students of political science, public administration, urban and rural development, sociology, social work and economics"--